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Shawn Layden is chairman of Sony Interactive Worldwide Studios.
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Sony’s Shawn Layden is skipping E3, but he’ll speak at the DICE Summit

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony recently announced that it is dropping out of the big Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in June for the first time in 24 years. But Shawn Layden, chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, will deliver a keynote address at the elite gaming conference The DICE Summit.

The DICE Summit takes place from February 11 to February 13 in Las Vegas, and it’s the first indication of Sony’s schedule in 2019 for talking about what’s coming next in the video game industry. Under the theme “Trailblazers,” the speakers will tackle some of the industry’s biggest ideas and trends.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.